2 killed in separate Tuesday night shootings

Two people were fatally shot Tuesday evening in separate cases in Mid-City and Hollygrove, New Orleans police said.

Meanwhile, one of two men has died after they were shot Monday in a nightclub in Gert Town, the coroner's office said.

In Mid-City, two 19-year-old men shot Tuesday about 6:30 p.m. around Palmyra and South Rendon streets.

One of them, Brandon Barnes, 19, died Tuesday at 7 p.m. at University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity.

Police investigated a call that someone had been shot and found one victim at Palmyra and South Rendon, and the other around the corner in the 200 block of South Jefferson Davis Parkway, police spokesman Garry Flot said. Detective Barrett Morton is investigating.

Later Tuesday, a 28-year-old New Orleans man was shot in the 3900 block of Hamilton Street in Hollygrove.

Officers responded to a call about gunfire and found the man lying on Hamilton Street in the neighborhood of Palmetto Street and Airline Drive. He died at the scene, Flot said. Detective Winston Harbin is investigating.

In the Gert Town case, Durrell Brown, 21, of New Orleans, and a 23-year-old man were shot Monday about 2:30 a.m. in Club Rockafella 2.5, at 3635 Pine St.

Police said an officer who was in the area heard shots and entered the crowded club, a block from Washington Avenue. He found Brown shot in the back of the head and the other man shot in the shoulder and stomach.

Brown died Tuesday at University Hospital, Gagliano said. An autopsy will be performed today.

The other victim was in stable condition, police said Monday.

In another unrelated incident, a 16-year-old wanted in the fatal shooting Monday in the Lower Garden District of a 27-year-old man turned himself in Tuesday afternoon, New Orleans police said.

Justin Collins was booked with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jerome Sparkman shortly before 2:30 p.m. Sparkman's body was found in a white Chevy Impala near the intersection of Josephine and Laurel streets. He was shot several times in the body. His car crashed into a truck parked on Josephine Street, apparently as a result of the shooting.

Homicide detective Nicholas Gernon learned Collins was the shooter and secured a warrant for his arrest, police said.

Collins turned himself in to police about 2 p.m., hours after police had issued a press release asking for help in locating Collins.

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